OBJECTIVE To investigate the current state of genetics education at the Fourth Military Medical University (FMMU) and compare it with other dental schools of China. METHODS Detailed information about the history and current education status of Oral Genetics in the FMMU were collected and questionnaires were completed to acquire the feedback of twenty-seven students on the course. In the other...

This book is part of a series called Fundamental and Clinical Aspects of Internal Medicine, a series of volumes for a postgraduate course. Short chapters cover the subjects of cytogenetics, mendelian genetics, genetic markers, multifactorial inheritance, biochemical genetics, genetics of cancer, and treatment of genetic disease. It attempts to be a fairly comprehensive resource for clinicians w...

This book is part of a series called Fundamental and Clinical Aspects of Internal Medicine, a series of volumes for a postgraduate course. Short chapters cover the subjects of cytogenetics, mendelian genetics, genetic markers, multifactorial inheritance, biochemical genetics, genetics of cancer, and treatment of genetic disease. It attempts to be a fairly comprehensive resource for clinicians w...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to describe how Polish print news media frame relations between genetics and human behaviors and what images of behavioral genetics dominate in press discourse. METHODS A content and frame analysis of 72 print news articles about behavioral genetics published between 2000 and 2014 in four major Polish weekly magazines: "Polityka", "Wprost", "Newsweek" and "...

BACKGROUND Genetics research is an avenue towards understanding essential tremor (ET). Advances have been made in genetic linkage and association: there are three reported ET susceptibility loci, and mixed but growing data on risk associations. However, causal mutations have not been forthcoming. This disappointing lack of progress has opened productive discussions on challenges in ET and speci...

Background: Genetics research is an avenue towards understanding essential tremor (ET). Advances have been made in genetic linkage and association: there are three reported ET susceptibility loci, and mixed but growing data on risk associations. However, causal mutations have not been forthcoming. This disappointing lack of progress has opened productive discussions on challenges in ET and spec...